Tim Pigott-Smith reads 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke.
Out beyond the orbit of Saturn, the space tug Goliath nudges the ice core of a comet onto its fifty-year journey sunward. Ice enough to cover the hell fires of Mercury and Venus with oceans kilometres deep, and thus to make those planets habitable. It is the beginning of the work of centuries but is interrupted with the Goliath is ordered to bring in the perfectly preserved body of Frank Poole, the first victim of the rogue computer HAL a thousand years before.
But this is only the beginning of the Final Odyssey, an Odyssey that leads one man to defy the limitless power of an alien technology. An Odyssey that leads to the moons of Jupiter, to Europa where a Monolith reaching ten kilometres skyward guards a village of ice on the shores of an ocean.
Europa, a frozen world where a new life is being born and the future of Man is weighed in the balance...
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